Hot TIFF Trailer: ‘Revenge of the Green Dragons’

Ray Liotta, Justin Chon (Twilight), and Harry Shum, Jr. (Glee) star in the 1990s NYC-set action crime drama that’s executive produced by Martin Scorsese and set to debut next month at the Toronto Film Festival. Revenge of the Green Dragons is helmed by Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo and was inspired by Frederick Dannen’s New Yorker article chronicling Asian-American gang life in Queens, NY. It’s a reunion of sorts for Lau and Scorsese after the latter remade Lau’s Hong Kong crime pic Infernal Affairs into his own Oscar-winning 2006 film The Departed. Pic tracks immigrant siblings Sonny (Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who join Chinatown’s Green Dragons in pursuit of their own American Dream, only to find themselves at odds when Sonny turns against his brother and the organization.

2 Comments

John W • on Aug 13, 2014 1:02 pm

How long before the Asians complain of being stereotyped and the show gets cancelled?

seelionrun • on Aug 13, 2014 1:02 pm

Um, except it’s made by Asians and specifically revolves around Asian-American life? If anything, this is seeking to break currently existing stereotypes by portraying other facets of Asian-American history.